Chapter 298: The Missing Statue
The day Shelly received the “revelation” through his spiritual vision was August 22, 2X16.
If, instead of focusing on him, one shifted their gaze to a stretch of the Pacific Ocean over a thousand kilometers away, they would discover that on that very same day, the U.S. military deployed seven unmanned submersibles into the deep sea.
During their descent, three of the submersibles were destroyed for unknown reasons. Another disappeared while ascending back to the surface.
In the end, only three successfully returned.
Remia told Everly that these submersibles had recovered three ancient statues with extremely powerful contaminative properties from an ancient ruin located in that mysterious sea.
“The SAI repeatedly warned the military that this was incredibly dangerous, but they ignored every warning and insisted on bringing the statues ashore. That decision directly led to the subsequent Gilosha Anomaly… During that incident alone, SAI Headquarters lost seven investigators, including three of its core members!”
Even six months later, merely bringing up the incident left Remia’s eyes red with anger, her teeth clenched in hatred.
Everly suspected that someone very close to Remia—a trusted colleague or dear friend—had died during that anomaly. Otherwise, Remia would never have shared such highly classified information with an outsider like Everly. She clearly despised the profit-driven U.S. military to the core. The fact that she wasn’t publicly exposing them was already showing remarkable restraint; in private, there was no way she intended to strictly honor the confidentiality agreement.
Remia became too emotional to continue, so Gregory took over the account.